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Bolivia

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The NGO ProgettoMondo MLAL is developing a three years project in the young rehabilitation center "Qalauma" located in Viacha, near La Paz. The initiative respond at the serious situation of adolescent population presents in the bolivian penitenciaries. The adolescentes are detained with adults, in the most of cases. For the first time "Qalauma" center offers to this vulnerable population an oppotunity of rehabilitation and reintegration in the society. The project is implementing by PMM and CVCS, other italian NGO, in coordination with CDC (bolivian NGO) and bolivian Authorites, like Regimen Penitenciario. The most important activities are the ultimate construccion of the center infrastructure; lobbying, advocacy and public policy for the application of favorable norms; training of justice operators. These activities will benfit about 180 teenagers in conflict with the law, that are in Qalauma, and the justice operators of the area.
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Main outcome

Ensure the implementation of alternative programs of rehabilitation and resocialization for adolescents in conflict with the law, under the juvenil justice reform, starting from sperimentation and systematization of Qalauma model.

ProgettoMondo Mlal Publication about the evolution of the juvenil justice over 10 years of work in Bolivia.
From the building of the Qalauma infrastructure to the adoption of the New Code of the Child with restorative approach, the experiences and contributions of ProgettoMondo Mlal to the bolivian justice system.

During the Congress on Restorative Justice and the practice of arts within the penitenciaries centers, bolivian Authorities and civil people sign the Agreement of La Paz where they undertake to strengthen rehabilitative practices in prisons for teenagers using artistic laboratories.